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IN SEPTEMBER, inmates Willie
James Wright and Albert Mathew
escaped from the state prison in
Rosharon, Texas, but were captured
_ the next day. They had helped dis-
guise their break by building papi-
.er-mache dummy heads with real
hair and placing them on the pil-
lows in their bunks. The ruse’
worked at the 10 p.m. bed check,
but at 4:45 a.m., a guard realized
that something did not look right. ’

The Dallas Morning News
reported in September that a torna-
‘do near Saginaw, Texas, picked up
James Davis’. four-pound Yorkshire
‘terrier and carried it for two miles,
setting it down along a road in view
of a passerby. The dog, Sadic, suf-
fered only minor injuries.

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-December that a University, of
Wisconsin dairy geneticist, Denny
Funk, told Midwest farmers that
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Ronald Raymond Carr, 37, was
given a suspended sentence in
Norwalk, California, in October on
the charge of furnishing drugs to a
minor. He admitted to giving his
daughter methamphetamines as
often as twice a day when she was
aged. 11, 12 and [3 so that he would
have company. while he did the
drugs:

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issue of State Legislanues maga-
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worker compensation laws because
a former insurance commissioner
last year was awarded $95,006 in
benefits. The commissioner's
physician also filed a claim, in
which he alleges that he suffered
injuries from having to sit so often
on a cramped witness stand while
testifying in worker compensation
cases.

Emesto Mota, 32, who suffered
brain damage when he swallowed
the contents of a bag of cocaine ina
police station so that it could not be
used against him as evidence, filed
a $7 million lawsuit against the city
of Oak Forest, IHinois. Mota claims
the police should have stopped him,
or failing that, should have called
medics more quickly.

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_ The county medical examiner in
Syracuse, New York, resigned in
November to avoid further investi-
gation of charges that he removed
organs from corpses without the
families’ permission and that he
failed to manage the office proper-
ly. Included in the latter charge was
an incident in which two men (both
with child-sex convictions) entered
the office, opened and stitched up a
corpse, and photographed cach
other with the corpse.

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